Hookwolf was in the middle of twisting himself into a spiraling serpent of blades when I launched myself out through the door and slammed my clawed hand down into and through the upper half of his face, ripping his lower jaw clear free in a catastrophe of screaming steel and green flames.
Then he did the one thing I never expected him to do.
Give ground.
The metalmorph twisted back as I pressed in swinging low, hanging above my second swipe.
My legs primed and I threw myself up ripping open his chest for a third time, before his arm shot out and smashed me into the wall like a sledgehammer.
But this time I'd been prepared and my hands dug into his wrist "My Turn. URAAAAAH!"
Lunging ahead I twisted out combined mass around laws of momentum bending to my will as eight tons of whirling blade spun around me then smashed through the wall I'd just been punched into.
The wall came down, and brought the roof with it, the entire side of the building collapsing downwards onto the Neo-nazi cape to devastating effect.
I watched, my heart pounding in my chest, breath panting through broken ribs.
Then I blinked, and something seemed to snap back into place.
"Hah..." I exhaled slowly, as my armor began sliding back in under my skin. The tingling sensation of pain began arching up from my everything.
Did I just limit break?
No... that was... that was something else.
...Retribution Will Follow.
But... didn't I need to trigger that? I mean it was only one mote to use but-
Nevermind, didn't matter did I just kill Hookwolf!?
The rubble started shifting around.
No! No I did not!
And I had apparently just blown through most of my motes, was bleeding externally and internally, and lit up like a midnight sun.
"Well I'm going to go ahead and call this a night," I exhaled spending a moments effort to will the bleeding to stop.
I then turned and promptly began running for it as fast as I could limp, hoping to clear out of range before the empire cape could dig himself out.
Still I couldn't help but smile as I did in spite of all the pain. Maybe it was just the massive endorphin rush but outside of the whole temporary insanity thing tonight seemed to really have gone well!